{"id":865093,"date":"2022-11-02T06:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=263193"},"modified":"2022-11-02T06:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T06:05:38","slug":"a-deficit-spending-scam-destroyed-uks-prime-ministerwhos-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/02\/a-deficit-spending-scam-destroyed-uks-prime-ministerwhos-next\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK\u2019s Prime Minister\u2026Who\u2019s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With its disguises as \u201chigh finance\u201d for the mystified and \u201cKeynesian fiscal policy\u201d for those \u201cin the know,\u201d deficit spending by the government was quite a successful scam for a long while. When the UK\u2019s ex-prime minister opened her new government in September, Liz Truss followed tradition by trying to run the oft-used scam again.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/02\/a-deficit-spending-scam-destroyed-uks-prime-minister-whos-next\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/02\/a-deficit-spending-scam-destroyed-uks-prime-minister-whos-next\/\">A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK\u2019s Prime Minister&#8230;Who\u2019s Next?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/02\/a-deficit-spending-scam-destroyed-uks-prime-minister-whos-next\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its disguises as \u201chigh finance\u201d for the mystified and \u201cKeynesian fiscal policy\u201d for those \u201cin the know,\u201d deficit spending by the government was quite a successful scam for a long while. When the UK\u2019s ex-prime minister opened her new government in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865094,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865093\/revisions\/865094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}